COLLEGES:Football:Christopher Newport's Matt Kelchner was named the USA South Athletic Conference's Coach of the Year for the seventh time, and a dozen Captains received all-conference recognition.Six Captains were named first-team all-conference: wide...

Malcolm Brogdon and Justin Anderson scored 17 points each for No. 9 Virginia, which closed the first half on a 22-6 run to beat South Carolina State 75-55 Tuesday night in Charlottesville.It was the 13th consecutive victory at home for Virginia (3-0),...

NORFOLK — In its slow climb up the national ladder, Old Dominion wrestling returns an All-American and five NCAA qualifiers from its first season in one of the best leagues in the country.But coach Steve Martin tells anyone who will listen that last...

NORFOLK, Va. -- Offense usually wins games at Old Dominion, but Saturday it was the Monarchs' oft-maligned defense's turn to shine.
Old Dominion used some rare defensive muscle and shut down punchless Eastern Michigan 17-3 at rain-soaked S.B. Ballard...

Through one quarter, Old Dominion's 2014 football team is precisely where most reasonable minds expected. Forecasting the remainder of the year is far more problematic.
Bobby Wilder's Monarchs prepared for their inaugural Conference USA season with three...

With Old Dominion's announcement that a third football game against North Carolina State is finalized, school officials now work to bolster future non-conference schedules with attractive regional and national matchups.
ODU's 2015 schedule is complete...

William and Mary went 1-9 versus Football Bowl Subdivision opponents during the last 10 seasons, but don’t for a moment believe that the Tribe was overwhelmed. Seven of those setbacks were by less than two touchdowns, three by a combined 11 points.Catch a...

Colleges:Wrestling:Virginia Tech won the ACC meet championship, delighting its fans in Cassell Coliseum and taking four individual titles along the way.The Hokies amassed 87 points, while regular-season champion Pittsburgh was second at 67 points and...

A mother-daughter combination from Poquoson sparked their team to first place in their flight as the USTA Virginia 18-and-over district championships continued at Huntington Park, Old Dominion and Christopher Newport.
Charo Hunter and her daughter Andrea...

Emily Wylam, a Grafton High graduate, recently was named the head men's and women's swimming and diving coach at the University of Rochester (N.Y.).
She was hired after spending four seasons as an assistant at Case Western Reserve, a top-notch academic...

NORFOLK — Taylor Heinicke is fascinated by pressure, motion, stress, efficiency and force. On the football field, as well.
Old Dominion's senior quarterback sees few correlations between his major, mechanical engineering, and football, other than the...

When he first learned that he had earned a spot on the U.S. junior national team by virtue of a forfeit, Kevin Beazley was torqued off, which conveys much about wrestlers in general and Beazley in particular.
Beazley, Old Dominion's standout freshman,...

VCU versus Michigan in suburban Detroit. North Carolina against Kansas in Kansas City. A Duke-Louisville rematch in Indianapolis. North Carolina State encountering preseason No. 1 Indiana.
Much of the regional contingent in the NCAA basketball tournament...

RICHMOND — As Akron prepared for the Mid-American Conference tournament, VCU coach Shaka Smart sent the Zips a 45-second motivational video.
"It was all about how much I believed in their team and how good they could be," Smart said Tuesday.
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THE COACH
MIKE LONDON
Fourth year (16-21 at U.Va.; 40-26 in coaching career)
After opening last season 2-0, the bottom dropped out for U.Va. with a six-game losing streak. At a time when London needed to sustain momentum on the heels of a stretch in...